Singapore Airlines (SIA), with support from the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and investment company Temasek, has entered into an agreement to purchase blended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from US energy company ExxonMobil for a one-year pilot in Singapore. This product will comprise 1.25 million litres (330,000 USgal) of neat SAF, which will be supplied by Finnish energy company Neste and blended with refined jet fuel at ExxonMobil’s facilities in Singapore, SIA and CAAS sayin a joint statement. SIA has agreed to take delivery of this blended fuel at its Changi airport base by the end of July. The fuel will be used to power all Singapore Airlines and low-cost subsidiary Scoot flights as part of the pilot project in Singapore. ExxonMobil was selected as the vendor to supply and deliver SAF following a request for proposal on 10 November 2021 to invite select producers and fuel suppliers to develop and execute plans to deliver blended SAF to Singapore Changi airport. It is a follow-up to an earlier study conducted by the Singapore government and industry players on the operational and commercial viability of using SAF at Changi airport. SIA’s senior vice-president, corporate planning Lee Wen Fen states: “Sustainable aviation fuels are a key decarbonisation lever and a critical pathway for the success of the SIA Group’s commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. This pilot reinforces our commitment towards decarbonisation and sustainability across our operations. By collaborating with our partners, we can accelerate and scale up the adoption of sustainable aviation fuels in Singapore.”

Denmark is accelerating its plans to begin producing enough sustainable aviation fuel to power all of its domestic flights and some international services by 2027, three years ahead of its original ambition. The Scandinavian country announced at the start of the year that it planned to introduce SAF on domestic flights by 2025 and power all domestic flights using the fuel-type by 2030, as part of its Green Fuels For Denmark initiative. It now says that it will bring forward 100MW of electrolysis capacity from 2027 to 2025, which could see it produce 50,000 tonnes of fuels for heavy transport in 2025, rising to the equivalent of the country's entire domestic requirements by 2027. "The Danish Prime Minister's recent announcement of the ambition to accelerate the green transformation of aviation has directly made us in the partnership look for a way to enable the production of green jet fuel as early as 2025," states Mads Nipper, chief executive of Danish power company Orsted, which is part of the initiative. "It will be a technological challenge that we in Green Fuels for Denmark are ready to answer, so that we can secure Denmark's position as a green leader in the coming decades and push for a green breakthrough for the global transformation of the aviation industry," he adds. In the initial vision for Green Fuels for Denmark, the plan was to commission an electrolysis plant with a capacity of around 10MW in 2023 rising to 250MW in 2027 and 1,300MW by 2030. Electrolysis of 250MW would be able to supply enough jet fuel to cover "significantly more" than the projected Danish domestic consumption of jet fuel and contribute to the needs of international aviation. Green Fuels for Denmark's final phase of 1,300 MW will be able to supply green fuels, primarily jet fuel, that can replace around 30% of the total fuel consumption at Copenhagen Airport. The project is led by a partnership consisting of energy company Orsted, SAS, Copenhagen Airports, and logistics firms Maersk, DFDS and DSV.

South Korean low-cost carrier T’way Air is preparing to introduce its first Airbus A330-300 aircraft on 24 February. The first aircraft is undergoing a test flight locally after finishing work at HAECO Xiamen in China, it says in a statement. T’way Air plans to introduce a total of three A330-300 aircraft between within the first half of the year. The airline says the exterior of the aircraft has been painted, and a total of 347 seats, including business class and economy class, have been installed. The first A330-300 will initially be operated on the Gimpo-Jeju route from the end of March, and thereafter, used for cargo flights on mid- to long-distance routes such as Singapore and Sydney, in line with the plan to resume international flights. The second aircraft, scheduled to be introduced in March, is also undergoing aircraft maintenance, seat replacement and painting.